Band 3 Peer Mentor

1 month ago

Birmingham, United Kingdom Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust Full time

Job summary

Join Our Team as a Peer Mentor

This is an exciting opportunity, to join the NHS as a peer mentor, for an 18 month period. Utilise your lived experience to enhance and engage those individuals who are entrenched within the criminal justice system.

BSMHFT are recruiting peer mentors directly for the first time and we are looking for someone who is:

Passionate about making a positive impact in your community Believe in the power of support and empathy in the journey towards recovery Have your own lived experience of the Criminal Justice System and/or additional needs such as Veteran/Substance Misuse/Mental Health/Neurodiversity Experience of accessing support services andhow these experiences have affected them. Experience of achieving goals that they have set in relation to multiple needs and having achieved a level of stability for at least 12 months and be willing to share details of their successful journey with clients. And do not have licencing conditions from previous offences

If this is you, apply to become a Peer Mentor with Health and Justice Vulnerability Service

Health and Justice Vulnerability Service covers various locations throughout the city supporting individuals in the journey throughout the Criminal Justice System pathway.

The successful applicant will be an integrated member of the Multi Disciplinary Team supporting colleagues in engaging service users throughout all of the pathways.

Main duties of the job

The main aims of the peer mentor role are:

Creating trust and rapport with people often defined as 'hard to reach'. Increasing the length and frequency of engagement. Create trust in services. Enable people to talk more openly about themselves and their situation. Enable people to access the services they need. Provide practical and emotional support - having time to listen, supporting people to attend appointments. Inspire hope in people using the criminal justice system. Inspire people working in the criminal justice system (including HJVS workers) by seeing visible recovery and learning from the lived experience perspective.

The peer mentor will establish a rapport with those who are disenfranchised, those who revolve through the Criminal Justice and Health systems and who do not engage with statutory services. Peer workers knowledge and experience will also support the development of the service to improve quality and improve service user experience.

Peer mentoring will be available as an option to individuals throughout their HJVS journey, especially those individuals who are failing to engage with the practitioners and/or Support Time Recovery Workers (STR).

Peer mentors will not hold a stand alone caseload but will enhance the work carried out by the practitioners and the STR workers.

About us

Welcome to Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust. Our 4000 clinical and support staff help us to improve mental health wellbeing and meet the needs of the 70,000 people we serve each year. We provide a range of mental healthcare services across Birmingham and Solihull, as well as specialised services nationally. We also offer medical, nursing and psychology training and are proud of our international reputation for both research and innovation.

Our population is culturally diverse, characterised in places by high levels of deprivation which create an increasing demand for our services and a necessity for us to make sure everyone can access the help they need. We are a team of compassionate, inclusive and committed people working together to provide excellent care to support our community. If you are looking for a place to belong, where you can make a real difference to people's lives, join our team where our warm welcome is waiting for you.

Job description

Job responsibilities

Please see attached Job Description and Person Specification for further details.

An interest in a career working to support vulnerable individuals who are experiencing multiple and complex needs. Basic computer skills, including word processing, internet and email systems and a desire to develop and learn new skills.

Offers of employment will be based on satisfactory risk assessment, DBS, two references and proof of right to work in the UK. Advertisement will be carried out in line with Trust Policy.

Person Specification

Essential

Essential

Lived Experience within the last 18 months of either CJS/vulnerabilities Period of stability in past 12 months Demonstrates willingness to learn Able to build rapport and engage others through use of effective communication

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